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2011 Developmental Biology Center Symposium

The Ties That Bind: Cell Junctions and Adhesion in Development
Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at Coffman Union.
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Iowa State students attend symposium as a class. full story

A gene that prevents sex reversals

U researchers discover a gene that keeps testis cells from becoming ovarian cells. Read the full story.

Congratulations to:

Congratulations to Seongseop Kim of the Greenstein lab, who won the Developmental Biology Symposium poster competition with "Elucidating genetic mechanisms by which somatic cAMP signaling regulates MSP-dependent oocyte meiotic maturation."

Selected Recent Publications from the DBC

Access to DNA establishes a secondary target site bias for the yeast retrotransposon Ty5.
Baller JA, Gao J, Voytas DF., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jul 25. [Epub ahead of print], PMID: 21788500 Abstract

DMRT1 prevents female reprogramming in the postnatal mammalian testis. Matson CK, Murphy MW, Sarver AL, Griswold MD, Bardwell VJ, Zarkower D., Nature. 2011 Jul 20;476(7358):101-4. doi: 10.1038/nature10239., PMID: 21775990 Abstract

Nitric oxide directly regulates gene expression during Drosophila development: need some gas to drive into metamorphosis? Yamanaka N, O'Connor MB., Genes Dev. 2011 Jul 15;25(14):1459-63., PMID: 21764850 Abstract

Apiology: Royal Secrets in the Queen's Fat Body., Yamanaka N, O'Connor MB., Curr Biol. 2011 Jul 12;21(13):R510-2., PMID: 21741589 Abstract

Radical Acceleration of Nuclear Reprogramming by Chromatin Remodeling With the Transactivation Domain of MyoD. Hirai H, Tani T, Katoku-Kikyo N, Kellner S, Karian P, Firpo M, Kikyo N., Stem Cells. 2011 Jul 5. doi: 10.1002/stem.684. [Epub ahead of print], PMID: 21732495 Abstract

Neuroendocrine regulation of Drosophila metamorphosis requires TGFbeta/Activin signaling. Gibbens YY, Warren JT, Gilbert LI, O'Connor MB., Development. 2011 Jul;138(13):2693-703. Epub 2011 May 25., PMID: 21613324 Abstract

Modulation of TGF-{beta} signaling by endoglin in murine hemangioblast development and primitive hematopoiesis. Zhang L, Magli A, Catanese J, Xu Z, Kyba M, Perlingeiro RC., Blood. 2011 Jul 7;118(1):88-97. Epub 2011 May 20., PMID: 21602526 Abstract

Development. Planarian pluripotency. Slack JM., Science. 2011 May 13;332(6031):799-800. Abstract

Assessment of the myogenic stem cell compartment following transplantation of Pax3/Pax7-induced embryonic stem cell-derived progenitors. Darabi R, Santos FN, Filareto A, Pan W, Koene R, Rudnicki MA, Kyba M, Perlingeiro RC., Stem Cells. 2011 May;29(5):777-90. doi: 10.1002/stem.625., PMID: 21374762 Abstract

Origin of muscle satellite cells in the Xenopus embryo. Daughters RS, Chen Y, Slack JM., Development. 2011 Mar;138(5):821-30. Epub 2011 Jan 26., PMID: 21270051 Abstract

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